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The Sentinel, 1882-07-14, Page 2An Answer to "Wanted. •" "Dciyou. know you have °Ace for tile coatli st thing Ever madeby the band above,- . Avioniau'altearte,nd a worlaan's life, And arworeankwoncierfui love . . " De yeti know you: hate aiked for this Priceless thing ' • Aaa, chillreight-ask for a toy.? DemendingwhaVothersbavadied to win, With the wteekteee• dial of a bey. . "'You have*ritteu my lessen of duty out, Man -like, you -have questioned ma; Now: stand a.tthebar of my woman's. Boa Until I shall question_ thee. • - ‘.k.chirequire your mutton shall -always be hot, • To.ur socks and your shirts. shall be Whole ; requireyour heart to bo trttaas God's stars, . Ami pure as heaven, your aciti4 require a cook for your mutton and beef, I require a far better thing; A. seamstress yOur wanting for. stookings... and • shirts__;, look for and Ib Eing.. _ A King for a beautiful realm coaled Heine, And a Man that the Maker, Gel, . Shad look uPOn: ap. He did on the-Mrst: And say very . `.` I am fair and young,. but the rosowillifade - From iny soft young -cheek some day Will yoit lOve me then, Inid the lalling -- As_ you did mid the bloom or Ualr "Is your heart an ocean so_ strong amid deep. P may lertneh- toy anon; its tido? : A loving woman finds heaven Obeli - • the day she in1a40 a " Krequire all things that are grand_ and -true; All things' that a man sliould be, - it you give thia all I would stake tuy life To bo all you demand. of ine.: , If you cannot da this, a laundress and cook You can hire With, iittia to pay ; But a woman's heart and a wematilt life • • . Are not to be woe that way." • -u L. I ife7S • .. . • . Where is rnatiente,?" inquires Kate. t "I don't know," he answers. "The last time I saw her she was ou the terrace."' eWe are always missing each Other and getting _lost in our eatenewee grounds," :observes Kate. "Well, if youtsee her, just tell her that Zeta,. and I are here, and that we delft want to go for any walks or drives :this. morning; it's 'too hot and wea;re so comfortable bare, in, the shade." "1 take, this niestiage-aa uiy dismissal." "No; yeti; don't," ahe answers promptly; "you take it as an opportunity of getting away Civilly from us gide," • Which. possibly is the truth, as in this carge--.-or in any other case where &int IS one of the two and Glen -calm the third— two: are evidently much 'better tcompany than three. . He gelea Kate a paternal smile, and • passes. on—with the echo of a half-forgot- ten tune in -hie mind, He has not a very ttecurifte memory for musen and whatever wordsmay be wedded to that tune have - Utterly passed out of his recollection. But tthefaint andfar echo' Of a_ long iiienced "'. • sound is ringine iu hia brain. He knows not when that sound was silenced nor on. whet claytor -hour it was ever heard.; it beats no clear' and defined- detail to .his mind; but he knows now from what- land . the wind that brings that. far-off . eubo— "biows from the capes of • tee past oversea tothe bays of the present," - • -It is from a land to which -he hates to look ' hack, a- land between which and himself. for years and years there have rolled acetate deeper and wider than those which's.aver - hemisphere_ from hemisphere. yet across these trackless, oceans thie low snatch Of Melody floats on tha wings" of the wind, a. message kora the past„ a whisper that I.dfo cannot sever; • - Death only divide, • him from the past from which he haft • turned in hatred, and set the gulf of half a, life between it and himself; - - Soho pesses-ort alone, and leaves the two • girls .there, withtheir bright faces- and • their cloudless spirits t lounging lazily !ind tranquilly content -in the mingling of shade andennishine under the elm trees,. through whosedark. lefty stretching.- branches the . light breaks in tremulous touches; bright -fitful &eke that lade ink*: shade* mud. _ quiver into light again_ as the leaves sigh antlaway above. . . Deka and Luli are the next to appear upon. the sceile„ 'passing 'down the garden on their way toward the lake. ' - "You lazy children!" says Luli, softly • -smiling as she sees her friends. There . are our mutual parents taking at nice brisk Walk and we two are •goingtoramble on. the shore;. and you • are lief asleep -under the trees 1" , " "Youknow jou don't want tar' responds knowingly, "and we are mach too cozy to disturb ourselves to go and walk, - with our elders." . Themostbeautiful human beings have - -undeniably their best and their Worstdays. This is one of Duke Mayburne's "best days;" and as he and Intl pass together down the winding garden -path, the noon sun - brightening his curly chestnut heir' with gleams ofreddish gold; and warming to olive the clear bronzed paleness able cheek,. Kate Craven- wakes up from her lazy, languor, -lays &twit her novel and- gazee_atter, him with most, -Open_ atatt unveiled admiration.% "Now, Zora sha .0.Nelairns; end -ludas - "L have seen beautifulpietures, and statues enough! But I never did see _ ontcanyae. or ihmarble a More perfect face than that P' "She is very lovely," assented Zora,.• looking after the wrong •person witicieno- *twat obthseness—not altogether genuine.: . "See 1 I Mean him t She is a dear,pretty, graceful little thing of course! But Asia the plod • splendid 7 human._ animal I ever saw. rut glad: Lull 'doesn't hear me make the reinark„ by-th&bye because she might be indignant at ,thy callirig her beloved an artimal. She might take it as ate tntent tional intuit,which is far from_ My mean- , ing. Onlye--tlenigh. of doureeheti clever, I knowit is not theintellect or the expreis- • siou in his face .thet, Makes it so splendid. It is pure form and color—profile just like animated -Greek. marble, and coloring like- ' PiOture."- . • tea warmly; ea -openhearted Kate, who always spoke Out Maly what she felt (end generally rather more: than less);_thought. Zora unappreciative of true =hemline- - • CHAPTER XVI. - . Sweet life, if Life were stronger, .- Earth clear of things that Wrong her, Then two things might live longer, Two sweeter things than they . . .*- . Delight the rootless flower, And love tho. bloomless bower Delight that lives an hour, And love that lives a day. : - . -SWINTitilt .. Zara. was the first up, the first out on I e terra -es next morning. ' She was leaning_ over the balustrade, reaching • down for a brauCh of oleander from the steep bank Which 'loped hp froin the garden below Ito_ the terrace above, When :- a second member of the. household . emerged into the open ait, ff.:ore, heard twee upen the-peth„ but she di.d.not turn Until Duke:May.1)11=e hd came close up to her, and broken the silence Widi tire- Crioinal observation. i " deedmorning, belies Brawl)." • ' " Oh I good morning, Mr. -Blayburn • said Zora,, -glencine hp eweeflythtaukly; in her pretty deferei dial *ay. - ' "Do you want that bough? ttilo'w u ;" he said bending °vett' the balustx ;...de besi e her; and reaching down his long, strong arm to bieelt off the -spray. He naturally -reeked at her as he gave it to her, and it was not a face for anartistto turn his -eyes 'away from in a hurry., ., Zona 'took the flower with .a. shy smile of thanks, and drew back modestly a step further away -from Duke, and looked down at the ehining, pink -petals of the oleand r as she observed, , • • t "Is it dew or rain on it? It has rained hit , the night has it not ?" • : • . , . "'Yes; there was rain and wind,..and a weird moonlight streaming into nty rooin that awoke me in the middle of the night, - and kept the Waking till morning, haunted by a snatch of an old ballad.' Are you ever haunted that way by a line of poetry th!tt. sleeping or waking keeps repeating itself in your braiti ?" - • . • , -"Soreetimeg," answered :Zara dtearnil adding with some curiosity, "But _wh t_ ballad was it? ' I had a book of old ballads once, and I was so fond of _Many- of them. . ' Duke quoted two lines, looking at her a if to test hermernory : ' I Late, late:yestreen I saw the new Moon . With Uie old moon in her arms. , , "Ah, Sir Patrick Spehs,"- she respoetle readily. "Oh, el know that one. It twa the wind and •the Moonlight made yoU think of that. DO you know one called . _ , . the 'Demon Lever '?" - "Yes, I should think so: Why, that ha ono of the finest stanzas- of all the range O old balladst—you remember? - _ • , t - The maststhat were of the beaten gold Reht not on the heaving seas, And the sails thatwere of the toilet -tee Filled not in the eastiaria breeze. Zora brightened With interest, her eyea -.rose up from : the oleander flower and flashed -one glanceatDukteandthehlooke away beyond him into the blue haze oveif the -distant , as she took hp the nail stanza. "And aye when she turned her round abbot " Aye taller lie seemedto be, Until the topmasts of that gallant ship - No talIer were thazilie I "Is it not weird and uneanny and some- how fascinating? - Itwas alwattsmy favorite:" she added. "Mine too," he said, "but I never can help looking on it with a professional eye, and regretting that it is so impossible to illustrate." . . . , "Why," 'responded Zora," could you not -paint one of those dark stormy seas, with the white horses'inanes• tossing Out, and e leaden sky. piled up with thundercleuds, and a ghostly -ship, still and not ,swayin On the waves, and one grey shadowy flout standing; and the woman? let 'me see, ho would you paint the woman? •the•ently tea human figure inthe picture I" . ' "It is easier suggested than done," said Mike, "but if deft. I do it, I shillcome t you for -hints:" - - . • . Zora was leaning over the,. balustrade looking ue, ,et him, the spray of Glean der hanging idly in her hand. Duke was regarding her with interest and tion ; but there was it respectful distance betweeu them, and both had their feature., and expression e scrupulously ender colt trol„ Which was fortunate for thee], as the next person to appear Suddenly - on the terrace was Kate Craven; who would certainly have.'" phaffed" them Mercilessly, and pro bably publicly, had aitythitig in the look or manner of either happened to. Catch her volatile attention. , -It was the first time that Duke had ever had even the briefest conversation alone with. Zora; the experience was decidedly a pleasant one, and he wished it to be repeated. ' Nevertheless he would have been either indignantor amused, accordingto his mood, : and have deemed himself a cruelly misjudged and wrongfully suspected victim, tf any one had suggested that there lurkedany posse ' bill -ties of disloyalty to _ Lult.in this admit ration'he felt for Zara( It was -the most natural, simple, probable, harmless thin that he should like Zora and find pleasure in her, company. Could an artist deny ite. dint meet' of-admirationteethat most lovelyr face? could a man help feeling a, kindly' j sympathy and interest in that fair fragile looking- -orphan, who seemed to etaudts alone itt the World; and whose life appeared to be a course of self -abnegating cheerful devotion to the cordedand lappirtegs of „every one around het? And •then ,thefevi slow or epaden glances he had received from those dirk eyes were so magical -tea surcharged with antelectric sympathy' that placed her en 'rapport at once with whoever she looked upon—that' it was not in the nature of mortal min . not to wishtoMeet the full gaze of those eyes again. - Lull liked'Zera,. and foiled her a very- . pleasant companion, and was se utterli unsuspicious -of any danger,#tpuke's-admi -ration—pnrely artistic appreoiation, as she deeme.d—Of Zora, that she in her innocent unconsciousness spoke to him of Zora in terms Mote likely to deepen than di -minis his interest. "Zora is so. kind and sweet," she would: "you are enthusiastic, Kato," said Zora, say to -hint. "Whon I haveta -headache - with a§ soft Mile. ".BUt-, it is certainly e 'quite: leitg for her eyery time I wake. She handsome face," she •added, vety demurely wouldbe just the perfection of atnurse . with her lips, and in her ' heart echoing she moves as softly as a :._ cat; her voie Estate rhapsody. . • never jars npon you; her very dress neve Zora, was a prudent little woman; who rustles aggressively as those of flOMe peOpl had laid to heart certain. lessons of worldly doe her whole influence -is. _so ,soothing:1 - lore, and who knew that "it Would not do" She is one of those rate people whose pie ' for her to admire Miss Glencairies "Over- sena Mike a sedative to irritable nerves.' . -4‘ That is right; darling.- I like to know that when you are 'laid ap-:with reit head aches arewellttakeht gated:" Peke would reply to Luli; and then add to himself that Zortetwas certainly. a most remarkably -attractive girl, and exercised a wonderful influence over s.,11 who came near her; andhe would-. lose himself in conjeettites about Zora's paet and spechlatiOne. as :to her future. - • .-•6 The first tete-a-tete With. Zora was net en speedily repeated as Daft; douttlehave desired. - Opportunities of aonveffsation with her, further than their .both -joining in a general disoussioin welre eesidesonght than found. Itviseesbnie days after their Morn- ing meet:hag-on the terrace ' that they hap- pened to Meet alone segaiia; and this time, too, it was on the terraCe.. . • lt was not morning now, but burning noon; tor the midday sun in the early days of an Italian October is burning still.The white 'statues -Wean:dug aMong. the green 'foliage looked cool in the sunshine; the late lilies Spread their waxen petals wide; the last of the oleanders perfumed' the air with their almond -like 'scent. On the burn- ing white-hot wall a. green lizard basked with dull . black , te.- large garden - tortoise roasted -himself. peacefully on the geaveltwalke AwaY.te- the distance; beyond the azure line of the lake, the curves of purple hills blended 'stiffly away. into the dreamy haze of the intense blue Sky. But front -the Mon:lent he delight -sight of Zora, Duke ceased totakeany interest in the lar dscape. . . She was :sitting under a tree of :white fusohip—that which she had Only known as a green -house potted plant in London she found here a sheltering tree—with some flowers in her hand; as feat %dower, .as. the .hischte-bells which - drooped 'over her; and seemed to kiss her curling hair, as still and graceful as the Marble. Nymph who stood with 'poised Marble pitcher, and 'flowing: marble drapery beside. The stone nymph was: cold and soulless beside that Warm human loveliness; the very - flower. petals were not more pure and deli - Cate arid- beautiful than .Zere. seemed to Duke as he -hastened to join her; and disturb her dreamy solitude. Hie -eyes lit upwith expressive pleasure and admire - lion; ..that proved his words to bo no idle compliment, as he said " "Whattuck to.end you here !" - Zora looked up, and - colored; and as -she Jett • the vivid critesint suffuse- her cheek, she looked deem.- - Duke, thinking it possi- ble' that his greeting, all eircurnstances considered, naight. have been a tittle. too *sent, toned.dowe the open admiration Of his gaze,and added lightly; "Everybody else in the establishment is asleep, lthink." - "Like the lizard and the tortoise," said Zera, glancieg from ono. of the reptiles to the other: "1 have been watching them ; they look se supremely happy, the cold! blooded creatures l' Dekesat down methe stone bench in the shaaow,and took off. his hat, and pushed the curly hair off -his brow, and enjoyed the prospect of an uninterrupted tets-a-tete with Zora, on her "pert, also enjoyed the prospect; but timorously end nervously, and altogether too keenly for her own' peace of mind, or that of °there. Dukeltlayburne was eertaizilytas Kate Craven said, "dan- gerously handsbme," and • Zone although her experiences in some . departmentt of flirtation and romance .were not Very limited, had never happened. to "look upon - his like". hitherto. Indeed, the like of that face, after which passing strangers turned to gaze, was not often to be seen;' and to Zora he seethed the "world's one men." - _ They talked 'a little* Natural History, suggested by Zora's remark about the tortoiee p. little ars,t_a little about the weather, and then Zore, Observed that "She: had left Sate to enjoy 0, quiet litt18;inta.". "Mrss Craven does not generally likeyon to be away frona her, I know1 suppose she is your dearest friend ?". .9bserVed. Duke, tehtatively. • "My . dearest and .iny hest friend," replied Zora. • . - "But you naest have many itiends?" he rejoined, • reflecting that here . Was an. opportunity of possibly learning Something of Zora's poeition end .prospects from her . • . _ own lips. • "Why should you say filo?" sheaeked, lifting her large lustrous brown eyee to his with a kind of soft surpriser ' • . " It is inconceivable that jiou should not have friends both many and true." " I have. very, very few," she Answered, with &mournful inflection in her clear low Voice. "Very few real friends, that is. And I need friends more than most people, for I have not a relation in the world now" They were treading ondangerous ground -.,--ground that, if .safe •for colder nature's, was dangerous to those two now and here, and they both knewit; but heither could now tern back. Zeta was not acting; there was truth in her words, her tone,: her look, but the most skilful actress could not have lured a man more tempthagly stepby step toward the Huai that mark the bbundary between loyalty and disloyalty, and it Was One of those occasions where in the histri- onic art there -lies .safety‘, and in the truth and impulse there lurks danger. •" When you count your friends hencefor- ward," said Duke, involuntarily lowering his voice, ", wilt you count. Me as -one? I _know we have net been -acquainted long ;- but I feel as if we had known each, other: for years. Will you not honor Me by reckoning_meanaon.gst your real friends?"' -_"You are very kind," seed.. Zora slowly and softly, " but—I dare not ,aceept your 'friendship." - She shook her headslightlY, regretfully; as ins:reluctant, but enforced negative; as she looked up at hint with steady:sadeyes. The dirk depths. of those dreamy eyes Were -full of •mournful yearnings; and in thein passion seemed struggling to the light, and sorrow quenching passion itt a, mist Of Unshed tears. Those eyes Were, danger signals, from which a prudent Mae would have taken- warning. . "Why not ?". he said earnestly ahdunpe- thously."Because •- 'of :billet old-world. delusion that it is impossible for a friend' ship to exist between ' man and woman ?" Duke knew- that the ohl- world theory of, which he spoke.,with such, eager score' wag in itiis nstance perfectly perfpbtly _ right. "Leave the 'Olet world :`,16.- key -what it Will, of:whafis_bees but What- the world elcies not see it oaimot talk, of , -.APA. tY-Fe.ttre ter away' from the London world here," he Went on, With ft transperent, attempt to assume that only :the world of London weeld disapprove or disbelieve hi ...the frieudship he proposed, although - he did not expect for a moment that this assump- - A , tion would delude -hitt -and indeed only put in the. elapse As a Sort of concession .to conscience. 'LSO that we are friends!" he fmiihed ; and Zara could not resist the Warm,: half -Pleading, half -commanding, look of his dark gray eyes. " " • "We are friends then," she. said. very -softly and timidly. • , - At this 'point they Were interrupted by the eight of dienceirn and Luli coming along the terrace. Both Dike and Lira maintained an admirable coinposhre. And nonchalance and smi1edin greeting to the other two with the serenest equanimity; eianlL.el n Zora's cheek the color flushed if Leh--whe, was an enthusiastic - -and incorrigible lover of all four Teethe' crea- tures, who picked up stray does end relieved starving cats, and had not ceased to meant -the lamentable-loseef Duke's first present, the white terrier, Jack, who: had beehlost, aed advertised itt vain—now e appeared dragging , along by, the collar a leage St: Bernard dog,- young, unwieldy, and half- grown, Who Wouldhrobebly bees big as 8; geed -sized donkey wheh he had attained to his faleheight and strength..., _ "See, Whet a beauty he lel- he's a- real - St. Bernard. Assuntabas. just brought hem to show its int high delight; her sister has received it as s present from a Countesssomehody. , be a darlitg ? look at his great pawel", Luli held a huge clumsy, heavy paw toward Zprete hand; but Zero:, tuteally. so ready to raven& drew baek.a step. : z" Please don't jet it teeth me I" she said With an epelegette and leutteating " I -can't hear a deg to come near me." "No? hew odd! -I em so fend of degeit said, Luli, caressing - the, animal's_ tawny head, but considerately retreating a little' further from :Zora. you afraid of -them?" ••- - , - "It is very foolish of nae, but really I ann. , - • - • "1 will fast; he is only Up:up! snd I'll tell Assiinta to keep him out of your way," said Dili aSsuringly. - - Oh, no, _please don t-Mentien it: 'know it ie an absurd heryinlanciS of mine. - I: thilik. I inherit, it from -.My mother;- she was bitten by e. dog °lace, and ever alter • she could not beat even the sight of a dog.", . , Glencaire turned suddenly and looked itt Zora with unusual intentness and intettatt "That is not strange," he said, though itisto a certain extent' curioue :that you should lia,Ve inherited" the terror. WaS it a had bite ?" he added, after kpause. • ." Yes ; she had a great scar on her, wrist: stwaya,r • _ • • 1"-.A.fid was itiii your time-eI Mean since you: can recollect t" he asked.. . "Not eh, no; 1 ouly..recollect Fleeing the mark of the bite." _ • "Nerves and antipathies and hereditary instinct are curious - things," dlencairh observed, half abeently; With hie odd,..pierc- iiig""eyeeetill fixed upon Zora, and sort of frown einuracting his hrew. "'Tina verynAthrs,r heryduknessnf Miss- -Brown's scarcely comes under the heatitot an. antipathy," observed Duke ; adding con- eersetienally, by way of relieving Zone who he thought leaked uncomfortable under .Gleintairn's egruttny, el have heard of cages, of 'utterly causeless and higapliceble 'antipathies. Now to met e cat is the most_ fascinating of animals, but I have known A case of antiPapayso strong that the lady once fainted away When she Was taken into aroom Where there was a bet, although the cat Was hidden, ;and nobody, not even she herself knew if was thete.until coming to -herself she said, There is a eat -here!' They earched the room, and there, sine enough, bidden in the folds °Mlle curtain,: Was poor Puss curled up asleep" - "That le certainly, as 'yeti_ Say, far: • stranger than Miss Brown's -nervousness, which is quite accounted for by Mrs. Brown's having been bitten so badly' by a - doe said Glencairn It Might -perhaps have been Zora's fancy that there was .aseght sardonic inflection in Glenbairn's atoeht- as he spoke of her mother as -1" Mrs Brown" It might also have been O-leneaiih's fancy that a faint, change, .a shadow of some discomfort, flitted momentarily aerate Zora's face as he .0 epoke. That brief -conversation had impressed deeper in- his .naihd a vague conjecture Which he had 'entertained before. Across his mind's eye during 'those few minutes had flashed the -picture of a women, with eyes - as soft, and dark; and alluring as Zora's Owl, drawing buck the sleeve feom. her white ariri to show r to him a sear upon her . wrist. : -It was long ego—a Score of years; but One wordof Zora's had roused the faded met:tort,: inter sudden fife. The sue- picion he had felt had how grown almost to a certainty; .v but hile; it was not -quite certainty the mystery ,annoyed him. He determined that it Shoind :be Solved. No one of the..present party could solve It but Zora herself, and .whether even ehe could wind off , the tangled skein aright was another problem, --Gleneairri, however, resolved that, whatever Zola could tell him, he would know. - , _ - : With this object be contrived that same evening . to _be Zora's companion in an. after dinner walk; and to linger behind the rest Of the party. -There was a piece of knowledge that :She :could timpart to him which he desired to obtain. After- Very little preliminary he .came Straight to his point.' • • • "You will think it a liberty ie.the to ask so personal a quEistion ; but may: I inquire your full nanie.?" "My name r she repeated, it little sur- prised. "Mary Zen'. Brown. - I amalways called by second Christian name." "But as regards your -surname.. You Must pardon me for asking, whethet Brown is the name to Which . you:- batra a legal. right?" ' ,, - . • - ". - - . . dlenceirn - Put :this delicate question respectfully and cOurteentsly enough, - but :with a steadfastresolution of tone that showed : he intended s to be answered. , Another girl in Zora's plate might have demanded his :right to make the inquiry. Zora herself might to any .Other mah have replied by a - 'refuse,' to enter upon . the affairs. other private history to e stranger. But the ‘power to lesteteither authority or persuasion was,;jhst the onepowerwherein . .Zeitt taildelteithe Avant- ,of it was the radical Weeetitesteiehteli.ivae' -the key to ber -whole character. And G-lenoairn was not a man , who waseasyto nut- off- When he. intended , to be . answered. .SO .Zore., replied,- With - painful hesitation, in a; low voice, n--,-.I=yes-7-I have as legalf, 9‘.:pght to the of Brown as to any ether." - - - • "As. the IMMO of • Pante for • instance?" • ZorieetattedantlioOked up. _ • L"ehrevis 1" she repeated-. Xt-,, len- Cairn 1 do you know, then-?" . She paused, .- and her inquiring eyes. searched hie:face. • . •Glencairn did- not reply AO the'.t nted :cpieetieh, otherwise: than by saying a or a. niement'apilence, quietly,•• • "Once iniHyde Park IseteBesil nre Yhes legitimate daughter and his 1 vtful - Widow driving by Do they . know o Yotit oaistencer : „ I • - . "If. you know all, you cannbt thin that - I Would -force my unwelcome 'existen e on- their,hotioe'r she said erendly. • . ft. would - -probably :be . useless,' he. - observed PeztreVi died so long ago that I imagine you can sc debt , lei:nen:04er him" - "1 do_ not -remember himat all. But who are you Who Semi"... th,know all sout , :inn- and *holm Ithoeght 'until now's, otal , stranger to me ?" she said_ wonderingl- , "-I am just whett seem," he replied " r sail under no table -slie rejoined; defending -herself. against hat. she -deemed' an: implied reproach 1 etre • no more - lawful - right to. any Other anie than to that of the tele -tete whent I o Iled enhtt thougheshe was only a alatant usin, and who wished me • to bear .Izer mt.o e of Brown" -.".And was thattMedeline .11fohnt rt!s-'. wish too?" inquired Glenettere; witrio agitation, but speekieg-vtith. a rather ore : 'careful atelguaidedequenitnity than r hever heard of her offering any e jee- - replied. Zeratin a 'Very - She is dead, you knoW., And—and Mr Glerecatin this subject i very paint t to "”..I.sixtuat:aPalOgize. far .allhaing to it, he said formally .- ." not mentiol it again I—hth-_Skinie slight acquaint nee with Betel:- Penreita; whielt May accunt for my. theotiphing it at 411.7 - - Did you, -know Much tif him?" she asked With 'something wistful iri her to , - :peer little -waif : tossed :upon the .wav of- the World! who hedn tater khoWn a fat r' love or a:father's-nate! . No; I knew but little," replied t eh- - caireeegif he had nothing more eay o the. Object. And nothing more did he eay., nd. Zora who would fait have queetionedim-i itt her turn, did not dere.' She only lo at with timid •eittreatieg inquiry, but he Was .unresponsive and dela; azia w 41d net refer; again . to. tthe toPietal He , .aseettained -What be _wanted - to knove for . his atm interest, audhe was not geiti to. diVe down into the clerk past again ter re. :tale/leak/1 was Moody and silent . at -evening, and sat thinking long alone inulhis - room.-itt-.mght Dreaming tether- fi art thinking. , Not -pondering, not plain g ; not eeiteonieg ; a prey to dark and ett igo fancies Whieh he: did ..eot. Seek to a ue, aWette haunted by.foreehade*inge of rw, bable t6rM, iF4leh he nade 110 .PrOje :to avoid, planned- nix -design" to avert, bu r set getieg -gletornily .nt the spot where he dreamed the cloedes would gather To b The, Sasliwelieurnn Fork s :Colonize. • CainPaW (Limited.) Mi. Hugh J. Monts/ant:14'y; the L d Conunissiener of the Saskatchewan..F Colonization Couipany -left Winni eg about the 7th of -Jute, for the .epropa 's- treet, upon whioh he has been inetnic ed to _make oareful and elaborate reports or the infointation of the, - oompany 1 d intending settlers Itt his• last • report to t he Secretary, Mr Byte:ILIA states that e has received from -various competent trustworthy sources the most favora- le acdontitetof the fertility: of the .Compan lands and their for egricuite at purposes t The information he . as gathered goes- strongly to confirm - opinion - of Prof. Maeoun and ot er. high authorities that the 'great day of the Northwest will be or near the Fp 1s of the tSasketchewae. Mr: Mentgoin y .says: -" The general,opintoe amongst thte most competent to judge is that ,the gr itt tide of -emigration ia setting in towards . is portion of. the Northwest, and that e n during the present •season the country h :Ithat direction will *Come rapidly settle 2, • 'One feature. Of the tract witiOla will co Mend it to the attention ' of intend settlers is its accessibility from Wihei by several cheap and convenient routes travel...It is understood that the Dom fon lend surveyor appointed to -survey company's lands is at present tit -route o the tract, and so -Soeh .as histlab 8 sufficiently,- advanced- the. :leave -elle of the eompaily with regard to the ment of their lands Will be proceeded wi on tt A Ileavy Verlict. _ The jury who brought ih. "suicide n second degree ". against .an unhappy 1- SOner could barely beat this perform* e, • reported:in the _Baltimore San: The 1, lowing amusing incident occurred at castle, Va.., during the last terra of Botecourt.county court: A. jury was pahnelled to try one BoleachargedWith -assault on J. G. Sperry, the latter tes y- ingin the case. t After two days' .delib . tient the jury returned :into court '-wit verdict of Maindaughter." It !'would e .hard to picture the - scene thatfolio «d. • The bar was convuleed, the "dead en sinilcd audibly, Judge Pa mer look don or.- moMent in_mute astonishment 14a tbn hid behind his newspaper: . _CommilanderiCheyne's rpoject... Commander -Cheyne hes 'returned Toronto from Ottawa- for the- present. has not yet bbteihed-a deeieiveengwerfr m. the 1)omirtion GOVercirdeut relativeto ie experimental navigation of _Hudson The Imperial Government has been municated with on the subject; and per d. . itinkge-lay.trheiietlyal-ifyttomhingthvgialti hqshapertneerldetreis ' o .•- • . - • " EC , 1N$T1TaT161)i .01-1,16g14- 1144***1141gt-IIN;119-1al•-;t1'4 , _ - • NERVOUS DEBILITY, Ilheumatisra, La e Beck>bipralgia,E.'aralysid and lilt Liver' and pi a Complaints' nnmediately relieved and . pe •a nently cured by. using theSe BELTS, BAN AND INSOLES Circulars -and Consultation 7BEEJ-